Sharing Your Schedule in English using simple present tense
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first we are going to talk about
positive statements
next we are going to talk about negative
statements
and finally we’re going to talk about
questions so
how do we make these and when do we use
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super basic grammar point a positive
statement
in simple present tense a positive
statement
in simple present tense so
today we are going to use this grammar
to explain your schedule to explain your
schedule
for example something you do every day
or every week every month and so on
so let’s practice this with a positive
simple present tense statement we use
this
grammar to express regular actions
and facts so a fact
is something that is always true yeah
so we use these two uh
we do these two things to talk about our
schedule
how do we do this how do we make this
grammar we have
two basic patterns to make a positive
statement the pattern is
different depending on the subject yeah
so for today we’re practicing our
schedule
so that means probably we’re going to
use
i as the subject a lot i do this
i do that but if
your subject is you we or they
we follow one pattern and if the subject
is he or she or it we use
this pattern a base verb plus s so today
we’re probably going to use i a lot but
i’ll show you some different
examples of uses of simple present tense
to talk about your schedule
okay so let’s take a look so this is the
basic pattern
for iu we they sentences we use this
plus the
base verb this means like the form you
find in the dictionary so no
change to the verb if your subject is he
she or it we use it plus
the base verb and an s and sometimes the
spelling
changes i’m not going to talk in detail
about this point today
but i have a lesson on the youtube
channel where you can find
more details so let’s look at this
your homework if you’re watching live or
later uh
to send in a comment or in the chat
share something from your
regular schedule as a positive statement
use this grammar point to write a
sentence okay
and i’ll i’ll check live i’ll try to
check live okay
so let’s get started some examples let’s
compare
first here let’s use the same verb
and compare in these two sentences
i study every day i study every day my
subject is i
so this is a my the sentence is about
my schedule i study
every day so study is my verb my base
verb
basic verb every day so
this is a regular action for me
if your subject is someone else in this
case he
i want to talk about a man or a boy or
some guy
so he is my subject
in this sentence study becomes
studies studies so when your subject
he she or it we use the base verb plus
s if your verb ends in y
there is a spelling change he studies
every week but the key point is that s
s we need to add that s sound at the end
he studies
every week he studies every week okay
so let’s look at some more examples some
other examples about
your schedule okay and send me your
examples
in the chat okay let’s look at some more
let’s look at
a uh this one our class our class so the
subject here is actually like
it our class so the class yeah
it starts it starts at
10 a.m it starts at 10
a.m so we use this grammar point to talk
about
time schedules yeah like a bus schedule
or train schedule or airplane schedule
class schedule
a meeting schedule our class
starts at 10 am in this case i use the
verb
start we need to use this s our class
starts okay next
we eat dinner at 7
p.m we each dinner at 7 p.m
okay again this is a schedule point i
have a time of day here
7 p.m my subject is we
so i follow this pattern here no
s we eat dinner at 7 p.m
all right next on she works
out three times a week she works out
three times a week this one work out
this is a more casual way to say
exercise
she works out by oh sorry she works out
three times a week three times a week so
this time
we’re introducing frequency how often
do we do something we use the same
grammar point she works out
here’s my verb to work out then
how often three times a week all right
one more they visit the office once a
month
so they is my subject no change to the
base verb
they visit the office once a month
and finally it rains here every year
it rains here every year so we use this
grammar point to talk about the weather
also okay so a few examples
all right let’s take a look at
your examples i’ll go to youtube first
uh
bal krishna says i get up early in the
morning
very nice okay um nana says i go to my
family
my family’s house every day okay miguel
says i go to work at six am
good ala ratam says i eat out with my
friends
once a week nice one okay uh fatima says
i watch your live
l-i-v-e yeah live videos every wednesday
nice thanks for joining every week
that’s cool
okay sounds good uh facebook facebook
facebook sami says what if someone wants
to talk about their past routine
you need to use past tense to do that
that’s not the focus grammar point for
today but
i have many videos about this so check
out
uh our youtube channel if you want to
see uh
some lessons about simple past tense
okay
uh ida says i work every day great
uh john carlos says i clean my bed every
morning very nice okay
uh monkeys says i watch your live video
every maybe every week instead of every
class every week
okay maybe nausea i hope i said that
right i work four days a week
good job nice okay sounds great
nice example sentences okay sounds good
so this is how we use
simple presence tense to make positive
statements to express a regular action
about our schedule
so i do a live lesson every week
for example so things that are always
true and things that are part of a
regular
schedule okay cool sounds good
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negative statements let’s go to part
two this is the grammar point
that i think many people get confused
with so let’s take a look
uh i’ll i’ll talk about the maybe common
mistake
i see with learners with this grammar
point it’s very easy to fix
super easy to fix so simple present
tense
with a negative statement simple present
tense with the negative statement
like what what why why would i do that
so we use a negative statement
also with simple present tense
to express things that are not true
so it’s still part of your like regular
schedule
for example but it’s something you do
not do
like i do not go to the gym every
morning
something you do not do it’s always true
we use this grammar point to talk about
those things
so the basic pattern here
again features two sentence structures
yeah
again it depends on your subject
i you we they subject and
he she it subject patterns so
what’s the difference in this subject
pattern
to make the negative we use do not
before the base verb i
do not verb you do not verb
in the he she or it base pattern
we use does not before the base verb
does not so he does not verb or she
does not verb the mistake
i often see is that learners sometimes
use maybe this i see this does not
but they put an s at the end of this
verb sometimes i see that
like he does not eats don’t need to
change the verb
the base verb here this verb does not
change in the negative
we need to think about this one this one
only do not or does not
so let’s practice this and
uh for chat uh chat and commenters
your homework is to describe something
that is
not true in your life describe something
that’s not true for your schedule
so again in my example sentence like i
do not go to the gym every morning i do
not go to the gym
every morning okay so i’ll check your
uh example sentences in a minute oh
cesaro already has one i do not drink
coca-cola
okay nice thanks so let’s look at some
example sentences
first i do not play basketball
i do not play basketball
another one a fact a general fact he
does not speak spanish he does not
speak spanish okay so
these two i used do not and does not
here for the first example sentences
but remember try to reduce these
in your speaking and in your writing
what does reduce mean
it means you don’t or doesn’t
these sound much more natural so
i don’t play basketball sounds much more
natural much more
um fluent and smooth than i do not play
basketball
we use do not when we want to sound a
little more formal or a little
more stiff for some reason same thing
here
he doesn’t speak spanish sounds more
natural than he does not speak spanish
we use this form to sound a little more
like polite or stiff
okay wow lots of examples coming in i
don’t speak french i don’t skip my
studies
good skip my studies raman on youtube
uh i don’t go to work i don’t eat junk
food i don’t lie to my friends oh my
gosh i don’t know much about politics
wow good example sentences everybody
uh david i do not smoke something okay
good
nice example sentence hazuma says i do
not play basketball okay moreno says i
do not walk
in the morning not at morning but in the
morning in the morning
uh i do not go to the park every weekend
says daisy okay
good examples uh deepak says i do not
wake
up early every morning i think is your
scent i do not wake up
early every morning okay nice example is
let’s look at a couple more here
we don’t live in new york city
we don’t live in new york city so we do
not
live in new york city
another one she doesn’t come to the
office
every day she doesn’t come to the office
every day
i don’t travel for work
i don’t travel for work and here’s one a
criticism you don’t eat enough
healthy food you don’t eat enough
healthy food okay so we use this grammar
point to express
things that are not true not true
things we do not do very helpful okay
uh some other ones many people are
writing about language skills i don’t
speak chinese i don’t speak french
okay uh francisco says i do not like
seafood good example sentence
shiban says i do not work every
afternoon nice one
um someone says i ain’t eat a lot
we can’t use ain’t in this way
uh i won’t i don’t have time to talk
about ain’t we can use
ain’t in many different ways but not in
this example
not in this way okay good ones good good
good
uh i don’t see any questions but many
example sentences nice job my cat
doesn’t play with me
says alvin okay good nice example
sentences everyone
uh okay it looks great your examples
look great and i don’t see
any questions so we’ll go to the last
part for today
uh good nice examples with positive and
negatives
last we’re going to look at questions
how to make questions with this grammar
okay so let’s go ahead
all right questions how do we make
questions with this grammar but um
here we go so
i always try to remind students and
learners to practice
making questions so uh sometimes in
my lessons you maybe you expect your
teacher
to always ask you the question and you
respond
but please make sure you practice making
questions
too like you need question making skills
for your conversations
so let’s practice making some simple
present tense questions so these
questions
are for regular actions and facts
so when you want to talk about someone’s
schedule
you can use this type of question
all right so basic pattern here’s our
basic question
pattern we have a wh
question who what where when
why also how how long or how often
and then again we have our two patterns
our two different sentence patterns
if this is your subject and i you we’ve
a subject
we use do before this
and he she it’s subject we use
does before it at the end we have our
base verb so again
in the question form no change to the
verb
even when you have a he she or it
subject all right okay
so let’s take a look at some examples
then
these questions this pattern here makes
an
information question we want to get some
information
from the other person all right for
example
where do you live where do you live
here’s my wh question where
do my subject you and
live my base verb yeah where do
you live i don’t live in new york city
kind of a strange response okay all
right
then what does he do for work
what does he do for work so this
question i wanted to include this
question because
this is a very common question what does
he do
what does she do or what do you do this
question
means what’s your job we typically use
this question uh to ask someone’s job
you can say what’s your job but
it’s more fluent it’s more casual and
normal
natural sounding to say what does he do
it means what does he do for work what
does he do for work what do you do
so use this sentence pattern to ask that
question
sounds natural this is another really
good one for conversation
why do you think so or why do you think
that so it’s asking for an explanation
of something and one more
when does she usually
leave the office when does she usually
leave the office so these questions all
are looking for some information
right but we can use the same
pattern the same well part of the same
pattern to make
yes or no questions so a question
that is a simple yes or no answer to
make this
just remove this part here do i
or does he or she verb like this
do you work near here do you work near
here
yes or no or does he visit the office
every day yes or no so to make these yes
or no
questions just remove the wh question at
the beginning
yeah okay
how to use yes or no questions just like
this so
do you work near here so make
the same uh the same basic structure
like this right here to get a yes or no
question
all right i hope let’s see i hope
maybe there’s some lag i hope that
explanation answered your question about
yes or no
so uh you can send questions i will try
to check
live um rahman says where does he go
every day
good question very suspicious okay how
often do you play the piano nice
nice okay um do you
like to get up early in the morning pal
krishna nice question
good okay what do you do on weekends
miguel has a great example sentence for
conversations yeah
what do you do on weekends that’s a good
one
to ask people the first time you meet
them
okay uh ketsurin says do you live in
the usa do you live in the usa uh
alam aaron do you have some time
do you have some time no other do you
have us sometime
is not correct do you have some time
okay
nafisa says where does he go every
morning good
narcissist john i hope i said it right
says do you like me
good example and where does drew scott
live
okay you’re asking specific questions
about people
uh nalki says what do you eat for lunch
usually
i would put usually uh before
the verb what do you usually eat for
lunch what do you usually eat for lunch
i’m not talking i’m not going to talk
about
adverbs of frequency in today’s lesson
but i have some lessons about that
on youtube uh yeah usually
the verb the adverb usually goes before
the verb
usually okay uh maria ines says do you
exercise
every day david says madam do you live
in ghana
good okay
says hello do we have to put s or e s
behind the verb for he
she or it because i always mix it up
yeah this is i mentioned a couple times
in this lesson that’s
maybe the most common mistake i see with
simple present tense
when you make a question no s
after the verb with a he she or it
pattern no
s here the only time
you use s with your verb is when you
make
a positive statement positive statement
so not a question
not a question like he studies every
week
so does he studies every week nope not
correct not correct
so don’t use the s when you make a
question only
uh when you make a positive statement
okay
great nice examples everybody this is
good okay
you have lots of good examples you guys
everybody
check the chat for some good example
questions you can use in conversation
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positive statements
negative statements and questions we
looked at
basic patterns to make all of these
and when we use them so please make sure
to practice these and practice making
questions
uh so that you can have good
conversations
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